NEWSLETTER NO. 39 APRIL 1979 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     NEXT MEETING 
     
    
   
   
    
     Time: 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, 1979 
     
     Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd floor, Room 47 
     
     Program: David Cairns has just recently returned from 
     
    
   
   
    
     a four month jaunt around the world. He will 
     
    
   
   
    
     treat us to a showing of slides from Australia 
     
     and New Zealand. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANNOUNCEMENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURE SLIDE COMPETITION - Bring up to 10 nature slides per 
     
     member to the April_meeting; or leave them at 
     
    

    
     53 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown before Arpil 17. All entries 
     
     will be shown at the May meeting. Prizes are being offered. 
     
     Good care will be taken of your slides and they will be 
     
     returned after the meeting. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One of our members, Mr. Wvlie Barrett, reports birds seen in 
     
     March, 1979 at his feeder in New Dominion: a Mourning Dove 
     
     (from March 8 to March 16); 4 Downy Woodpeckers; a pair of 
     
     Hairy Woodpeckers; Boreal Chickadees (interested in pork fat); 
     
     Black-capped Chickadees (sunflower seed and pork fat); Red- 
     
     breasted Nuthatch (pork fat); Blue Jays, up to 30 at one 
     
    

    
     time (sunflower seeds); Evening Grosbeak, up to seven at one 
     
     time; two Dark—eyed Juncos; two or three Crows; five House 
     
     Sparrows. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The pork mentioned is raw fat with rind. When nailed 
     
     to a tree, it remains secure while the birds feed on it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Second Annual Francis Bain Birdathon will be held on May 26 
     
     or May 27, 1979. Our first birdathon was a tremendous success 
     
     in terms of raising money for the 1978 Canadian Nature 
     
     Federation conference, in accumulating knowledge about resident 
     
     and migrating bird species in late spring, and also in terms of 
     
     getting naturalists out to do some useful and enjoyable birding. 
     
     If you would like to participate this year, by doing an area 
     
    

    
     of your own or by accompanying a team already established, 
     
     contact one of the Natural History Society executive or 
     
    

    
     David Smith, birdathon coordinator, Newton, Prince Edward Island 
     
     David's phone number is 887-2057. Everyone is welcome to v 
     
     participate. Teams of birders will be distributed throughout 
     
     the Island.